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| In 1608 an Englishman named Thomas Coryate traveled in Italy (意大利). He liked the country and 1 down everything interes  ting. But he found one thing 2 interesting than the others. In his diaryThomas wrote," 3 the Italians eat meat, they use small forks. They do not eat with their hands because, as they say, people do not a  lways have 4 hands."Before he went back  to England, Thomas Coryate bought a few 5 .At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the forks to his friend. When the steak (牛排) was brought out, he took out a fork and wanted to 6 the steak as the Italians did in Italy. His friends were 7 when they saw this. He told them what the fork was. They all  said that Italians were very strange people b  ecause the fork was not easy to use at all. Thomas Coryate tried to prove that his friends were 8 , so he began to show that it was easy to use the fork. But the first 9 of meat he took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to 10 at him and he had to take fork away. People in England began to use for  ks only fifty years later. | ||||
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